Advice

How to manage water resources? Is it just a matter of matching supplies to demands? Should water and its quality be recognised for its wider role in life? How to prepare public decisions on water, which are widely supported yet affordable? Questions without easy answers as interests, ideas and stakeholders diverge.

Kees Blok works on such questions and combines insights in technical aspects – and in socio-economic and institutional contexts – with experience in communication and participation.

Example 31

How can action by Bangladesh's communities and their local governments improve agricultural water management and contribute to a stronger and more inclusive local economic development?

Kees Blok helps shape the 'water management for development'-approach of the Blue Gold Project in South-West Bangladesh by supporting initiative by water management groups and associations in collaboration with Union Councils and line departments. A decentralised orgaisation to encourage such intiatives forms a cornerstone of the approach.